1
The whole eretz was of one language and of one speech.
2
It happened, as they journeyed east, that they found a plain in the land of Shin`ar; and they lived there.
3
They said one to another, "Come, let's make brick, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
4
They said, "Come, let's build us a city, and a tower, whose top reaches to the sky, and let's make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole eretz."
5
The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
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The LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is what they begin to do. Now nothing will be withheld from them, which they intend to do.
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